Canadian History
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 The Lost Massey Lectures |
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the … | Bernie Lucht | 418 | 2007 | View |
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From  “The Lost Tribe of a Lost Tribe”Black British Columbia and the Poetics of Space From: Black Geographies |
Peter James Hudson | 23 | 2007 | $2.30 Add | |
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From  NEW! Len’s CameraFrom: Len & Cub |
This chapter talks about Len’s passion for photography and gives some context for photography in the early 1900s. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! The “Lucky” Ones |
This chapter explores Toronto’s underground construction workers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The chapter traces the deadly conditions faced by tunnellers building the Yonge and … | Gilberto Fernandes | 16 | 2026 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! “The Lucky Things That Happen to Me” |
This chapter traces the life of Gerry Gallagher, an Irish immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951 to organize construction workers. It examines his wartime experiences, his founding of LIUNA … | Gilberto Fernandes | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Lure of NiagaraPART THREE: RECONSTRUCTING |
Chapter Ten focuses on the development of Southern Ontario and Quebec. Topics discussed include tourism, hotels, pro-Confederate networks, Confederate sympathisers in Montreal, and the movement … | Brian Martin | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The Making of MarcelFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
In this chapter, Pitts explores the life of Marcel LeBrun, the CEO and co-founder of iMagicTV Inc., a company that made an early attempt at delivering video-on-demand over the internet. | Gordon Pitts | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From  “The Man Behind the Plow”:Agrarian Populism and the Farmer Governments From: The Rise of the New West |
As the crisis of the 1880s unfolded in the West, the federal government, the CPR, and the private grain trade were taking the necessary steps to ensure the orderly and privately controlled export … | John F. Conway | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From  ‘The Maniac Chinaman’From: The Ward |
Edward Keenan | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add | |
 NEW! The Mantle of StruggleA Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas |
Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, … | Irving Andre | 360 | 2023 | View |
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From  The March to StatehoodFrom: Songs Upon the Rivers |
This chapter continues to explore the history of French-speaking/descended settlements in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. | Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The McLaughlins vs. The Workers |
In this chapter, Leah traces class conflict in Oshawa, Ontario, from the 1860s through the 1940s, centring on the McLaughlin family and the workers who built the town’s industrial identity. | Tony Leah | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Mild WestThe Myth of RCMP From: National Dreams |
For a hundred years the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has occupied a special place in Canadian history and our imaginations. The story of how they drove out the American whiskey peddlers and … | Daniel Frances | 49 | 1997 | $1.96 Add |
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From  The Modern North, 1945–1985From: North of Superior |
Most historians agree that the end of the Second World War ushered in a new era in Canada. The economic and social upheaval that had dominated the 1930s became a thing of the past, and the 1950s … | Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The Month of Traitors (November) |
In this chapter, Dutil examines November 1885, a month in which the execution of Métis leader Louis Riel for treason ignited fierce conflict between English and French Canada.Prime Minister … | Patrice Dutil | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Montreal Bed-In |
This chapter explores the events surrounding John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s bed-in in Montreal. The chapter discusses the people they met during the event, and the impact it had on Canadian … | Greg Marquis | 59 | 2020 | $5.90 Add |
